Remove silences from your audio recordings

Before you start, make sure to be in Multitrack mode. Select Effects > Diagnostics > Deleting Silence (process). The Diagnostics panel opens on the left-side of the UI.

From the Preset dropdown, select from the standard options or set the preset for your audio.

To scan for problems in your audio track using the Deleting Silence effect, click the Scan button. To find the right levels for silence and audio in your recordings - like it used to do in waveform view, click Find Level.

Below the Find Level button, you get a list of different regions that it thinks are silence in recordings along with the Start time, Duration, and Clip details.

Once the issues are detected, you can fix them using one of the two options:

• Strip Silence - Cut and delete the silence entirely.
• Split Silence - Cut the clip but leave them selected so that you can verify if the right part has been selected.

If you have multiple audio tracks and you want to apply these setting to all, select Split Scene > Split All. In the list of clips, the Split Silence only works on the selected clip. If all the clips are selected or none of them are selected, it gets applied to all the clips.

The waveform shows the silence and noise in the audio. The brighter once are what it considers noise and the darker ones with waveforms are considered silence. Drag the brighter parts down to empty tracks to confirm if the selections are correct.